"Well, I am sorry to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but you were inveigled into a marriage ceremony with John Delancy Curtis by gross and fraudulent misrepresentation.

He told you, I assume, that Monsieur Jean de Courtois was dead.

That is not true.
Monsieur de Courtois is alive, and in his room at the Central Hotel in 27th Street at this moment.

He was detained there at the hour you awaited him--kept there forcibly, by means which must be investigated, but the really important fact now is that he lives.

Need I tell you what that statement implies?
Need I emphasize the lie with which this man Curtis attained his object?
Your father, the Earl, and I myself, saw Jean de Courtois a few minutes since.